"...Beaver Utah Dec SidneyTanner died here last night at the ripe age of 86 years He was a very prominent man in the early history of Utah hav ing joined the Mormons in 1832 at New York where he was born He ... KILLED BY A CIRCULAR SAW Fragments of Hurled into a Busy Throughare TIUBUNlfl Anaconda Dec Houghion was killed this afternoon by tunsting of a circular saw operated by steam power Tho blade flew ... to house Ho was struck by ono of the pieces which cut off his lower jaw and laid open tho shio of his head Ho was taken to tho hospital whertf ho died four hours later He was US years oiii not married Tho ... had a frightfully rough passage She was in three hurricanes two of which shifted her cargo of coal had a man ..."

About Sidney Tanner

(son of John Tanner and Lydia Stewart). Born April 1, 1809, Bolton, Warren county, New York.

Married: Louisa Conlee March 1, 1830, Bolton, New York, who was born February 5, 1811.

Their children:

Allen Benedict born March 2, 1831, married Elizabeth Jane Mathews;
Lydia born November 3, 1832, married Charles Allen Burk;
Emma Smith born June 1, 1835, married Nathan Swarthout;
Mary Louisa born September 4, 1837, married George Crismon;
Elsie Elizabeth born May 14, 1840, married Newton Chase;
Sidney, Jr., born March 6, 1842, died infant;
James Monroe born July 30, 1844 died infant;
Mason Lyman born July 1, 1846, died infant.

Family home New York.
Married: Julia Ann Shepherd in 1847, Bolton, New York. (daughter of Samuel Shepherd and Roxie Laney Ray of Vermont, pioneers, 1848, Amasa M. Lyman company). She was born March 24, 1829.

Their children:

Julia Ann born June 10, 1848, married Charles Y. Tyler;
Albert Myles born March 5, 1850, married Charlotte Banks;
Henry Martin born June 11, 1852, married Eliza E. Parkinson; married Emma E. Stapley;
Naomi Ruth born July 17, 1854, married George Theobald;
Samuel E. born June 4, 1857, died infant;
Shepherd Leroy born April 12, 1859, married Olive Oakden;
Rollin Ray born September 9, 1861, married Rhoda Hales;
Walter Wate born November 30, 1863, married Hattie Fotheringham.

Married: Rachel Neyman (daughter of William and Jane Neyman).

Their children:

William Neyman born January 8, 1860;
Edith Idella born July 4, 1862;
Howard Harper born January 4, 1864, died;
Rachel Adelia born September 4, 1866, married Barlow Ferguson;
North Sillman and Cyrus Livingstone, died.

Families resided Beaver, Utah.

Called to San Bernardino, California, 1849, and returned 1857. Member high council of Beaver stake; counselor in bishopric Beaver ward. Died December 5, 1895, Beaver, Utah. Sources:

Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah photographs, page 163
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 1198